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chinatown
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Just some of things I remember - trying to recall even more of.
Annual Barlick Gala, not that long gone but used to be the best anywhere around, I remember processing in it a few times with the Band, then there used to be three of four bands in the parade so we could get a break whilst another played
We used to stand as a family at the bottom of Gisburn street on Gisburn Road.
Roll Royce Gala, again another annual event with the cars and engines on display, loads of rides for the kids, and a rocket train powered by a motorcyle engine, as a first year apprentice at Rolls we had to maintain the engine for the next year, the favoured few got to drive it on the day as well.
Rolls Royce kids Christmas parties
Rolls Royce swimming club going to Colne baths on tuesday night, a guy called Ben(?) taking and looking after us all - and then annually a trip to Blackpool Pleasure Beach
St Josephs Cubs and Scouts prior to them being amalgamated into 1st West Craven
Bonfire night on Victory park - a huge bonfire next to Park Rovers ground, and then fireworks on the Park Rovers, I remember seemingly hundreds of people walking across the park to get to it.
Wednesday afternoons (?) (and occasionally Saturday Mornings) watching the steam coming out of the test beds at Rolls Royce and the scream of the engines being tested.
The steam Engine coming into barlick with the grammer school kids getting a choice of going to school at Skipton on the train or bus - 3 buses to Skipton and 1 bus to Colne to Fishermore
10:0-clock Saturday morning the fire station siren going off, my dad being a fireman also had a bell at home to raise the alarm, my mum standing on a buffet with a cushion to quiten it so not to wake up the baby!
The queues going into harry towns office on railway street to pay for the coal - something to do with harry town so I believe!
Saturday afternoon, barlick as dead as a church mouse.
Wakes weeks, barlick dead as a church mouse.
Watching wrestling matches in the Palace
Saturday afternoon maternies at the Majestic
Getting clouted when I got home because I had done something - strange bad news seemed to travel even faster then without technology.
Watching the Panto's at the old Ship
Practising with Barlick Band in a club behind the houses on Church Street, (now demolished and a car park is there)
The world being circled around Gisburn Street, St Josephs school and Church, Father Monigham. Father Moriaty, Mr and Mrs Worthington at School
(Was there life outside Barlick)
Being told all Colners lived toer brush!
Going to secondary school at Colne and being told all barlickers lived toer brush!
More I think the more that comes back - maybe I should think about writing more of it down!
Chinatown
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Stanley
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Posted - 07/06/2011 : 04:51
Comrade, I asked Roy and he says that his brother Keith was the drummer with the inmates.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Another
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Posted - 07/06/2011 : 08:42
Of course there were three brothers, Roy, Keith and Neil. Nolic
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Posted - 12/06/2011 : 13:06
On the subject of Memoirs, I have just found two Videos both entitled 'EE By Gum' pictures of old Barnoldswick and are produced by Barrys Broadcasting Co. I am unable to play them so if they are of any use to anyone they can have them after I have found somewhere to transfer them to DVD.
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Posted - 12/06/2011 : 14:07
I remember my parents taking me to the Palace theater when I was 5 or 6 years of age. The movie Quovadis, starring Robert Taylor was playing. I slept through the whole show. I think that was the only time I was at the Palace. Sure went tho the Majestic often, though.
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Anyone remember 'Barmy Mick's' in the '60's? I think he started off with a stall in one of the streets behind Church St. he then moved into the old 'Palace' cinema building. He sold all manner of things, some 'tat', granted, but you could get a bargain if you looked carefully. I bought some jumbo sized spikey hair rollers from there when I was about 15, and oh, the torture when wearing them!!
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Posted - 12/06/2011 : 23:44
I too remember being at the Palace cinema once Zeke, I was with my parents and very young, about 3yrs. The film was a western and when there was a close-up of an indian in full warpaint, it scared me to death! Happier times were at the Majestic of course, I was a regular there with my mates every Saturday afternoon until I progressed to the 'Bop Club' as I grew older. Such great memories of the Majestic, the ballroom and cinema! I was quite upset, after joining OGFB to discover that it had all gone, along with other places which I also had meant a lot to me, but I guess that's just me being a sentimental old fool. One vivid memory is the view I had from my bedroom window when we lived in Parker Street. My room was at the front overlooking the garden and Whipp's hen pens, beyond which were the allotments, divided by a pathway which eventually forked right to Fernbank or left to fields and meadows leading to the 'humpty dumpties'. Behind the allotments was Monkroyd, a paradise for us kids, and on the skyline of course was Weets Hill. That was the view I loved and will never, ever forget it! I never closed my curtains completely at night and always had my sash window opened a couple of inches at the top. It was the last thing I saw before going to sleep and the first when I awoke. I have seen cloud patterns changing and 'made' pictures out of them, heard the rumble of thunder and seen lightning dance across the top of Weets. I count myself very lucky to have these memories because I know now, that even if I came back to Barlick,( and I have been considering it,) I will never see that view again! 'Bitter-sweet' don't you think?
Sandy
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Stanley
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 06:13
Good stuff Sandy. I was born in Stockport and until I went farming in Warwickshire in 1953 and eventually finished up round here in 1956 I knew nothing about views and countryside. Now I couldn't live without them. The centre of the town has changed a bit but the essentials of green fields and hills ten minutes from wherever you live is still there. We are lucky. I sit on the bench at Letciffe every day and let my eyes relax by looking anything up to 40 miles up the Dales and beyond. Priceless.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Cathy
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 10:44
OH STANLEY, stop it, I'm so jealous.............. 
All thru the fields and meadows gay .... Enjoy
Take Care...Cathy |
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 15:08
All is not doom and gloom in the alcohol business in Barlick, pubs are closing but new entries are opening, for example The Wine Bar and The Cellar Bar. Both seem to be doing steady business...and both are "free houses". The problem seems to be breweries that are gouging their own pub operators...I understand that "free house" operators can buy product from the breweries cheaper than their operators.
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 20:34
Good ole days, huh? Sandy, I wonder if the Blue Bells still bloom wildly as they once did. You jogged my memory mentioning "Humpty Dumpties". Wasn't that some sort of quarry? Church Street fish n chip shop, few doors down from the Seven Stars Pub, then of course the little shop and newspaper stand we talked about earllier. The Majestic, as I remember, ran some pretty good movies. I saw "Rock Around the Clock" and "Don't Knock the Rock" at the Majestic...1956 I believe was the year, and the theater was packed. We're planning on visiting England and Barlick again, sometime in the near future.
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I too remember being at the Palace cinema once Zeke, I was with my parents and very young, about 3yrs. The film was a western and when there was a close-up of an indian in full warpaint, it scared me to death! Happier times were at the Majestic of course, I was a regular there with my mates every Saturday afternoon until I progressed to the 'Bop Club' as I grew older. Such great memories of the Majestic, the ballroom and cinema! I was quite upset, after joining OGFB to discover that it had all gone, along with other places which I also had meant a lot to me, but I guess that's just me being a sentimental old fool. One vivid memory is the view I had from my bedroom window when we lived in Parker Street. My room was at the front overlooking the garden and Whipp's hen pens, beyond which were the allotments, divided by a pathway which eventually forked right to Fernbank or left to fields and meadows leading to the 'humpty dumpties'. Behind the allotments was Monkroyd, a paradise for us kids, and on the skyline of course was Weets Hill. That was the view I loved and will never, ever forget it! I never closed my curtains completely at night and always had my sash window opened a couple of inches at the top. It was the last thing I saw before going to sleep and the first when I awoke. I have seen cloud patterns changing and 'made' pictures out of them, heard the rumble of thunder and seen lightning dance across the top of Weets. I count myself very lucky to have these memories because I know now, that even if I came back to Barlick,( and I have been considering it,) I will never see that view again! 'Bitter-sweet' don't you think?
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Posted - 13/06/2011 : 22:52
Glad you too remember the Humpty Dumpties Zeke, we loved playing around there and although we were quite a distance from home, we felt safe. I think you're right in saying that they were the remains of some sort of mine, one day we found what looked to be a lime-stone kiln which was almost hidden by foliage etc. We had been learning about these kilns at school and of course reported our 'find' to Mr Robinson, our teacher, the following day and he complimented us on our observationary skills. (Brownie points all round!) However, after saying that, us kids preferred the more 'romantic' notion that the Humpties were an ancient warrior burial ground and that the brave spirits gave us strength and courage as we re-enacted great battles! Ah, the imaginations of the young, eh? Yes, and me a girl, a holy terror of a tomboy, I must have been the bane of my poor Mum's life! Actually, the mention of 'battles' takes me back to the good old Majestic once more, do you remember that whatever film had been shown on Saturday afternoons, was always re-enacted by the kids on their way home afterwards? The townsfolk of Barlick, going about their business would always know what had been shown, by the hoards of kids rampaging through the streets either swashbuckling, sword fighting or slapping their backsides to urge their imaginary mounts to go faster. Such happy, carefree days.
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Stanley
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 05:52
You're right, it was a limestone quarry and yes there is a quite modern kiln up there. Bit of a mystery to me, I can understand quarrying the limestone there but why carry the coal up to the kiln? It would have been easier to burn the lime down in Barlick near the canal and the source of coal. Easier to ship the lime out as well. One of the things that is often forgotten is that when the canal opened it not only made economic transport of coal into Barlick possible but lime into Lancashire as well. Barlick was the nearest source of high quality limestone to NE Lancashire and the lime burnt lime was a saleable commodity.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Stanley
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 07:17
A pic for Cathy:
Sorry Cath! Just back from the morning walk. Jack surveying the thriving watercress bed in the old mill leat in Valley Gardens. Lovely morning!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 07:38
...and very nice it looks too.
(sigh)
you sure know how to make a couple of old ducks homesick...
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Stanley
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 07:47
Funny thing is that there are no ducks in the beck in Valley Gardens. Only seen one there with her chicks some months ago.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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Posted - 14/06/2011 : 22:48
What a lovely photo Stanley, I can't quite make out exactly where it is though. Even though the area was my old 'stamping ground' it was so much different in my day, the 'cinder path' was just a dirt track which we used every day to go to school and the path leading up Butts was not much better until you got to Briggs and Duxbury's.
I was very surprised to read of your origins too, you are so knowlegeable about Barlick and it's history, I would have sworn you were born and bred there. So glad you love it so much and are happy there.
P.S. Your Jack is such a cutie, though he looks quite a character and probably wouldn't appreciate being called that, eh?
Sandy
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